Login isn't required to access the site, only to post in forums, etc. Search 
engines should be able to crawl all of the site, but as I mentioned cannot 
crawl anything at the moment as they get stuck in a redirect loop because they 
do not accept cookies.
 
Thanks

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From: Scott Battaglia [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sun 05/04/2009 17:07
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [cas-user] CAS issues



On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Mat Evans - theWorkshop 
<[email protected]> wrote:




Scott, Thanks for the reply. The thing is we do need this site to be crawled by 
search engines, but as it stands they are unable to. Is this an issue with all 
CAS enabled sites?


Its an issue with ANY site you put security in front of.  Would you expect a 
site protected by Basic Auth to let a search engine in? If it an internal 
search engine you control, then you'll have to look at its documentation to see 
if there's a hook for providing credentials to sites being crawled.

-Scott





 

From: Scott Battaglia [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: 05 April 2009 16:39
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [cas-user] CAS issues

 

 

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Mat Evans - theWorkshop 
<[email protected]> wrote:

Hi, I hope this is the correct place to ask this?



We have a CAS implemtated across a couple of websites. When you access one of 
these sites, a cookie is set, then you're redirected (HTTP 302) to the CAS 
server then redirected back to the site. Although this is invisible to a user 
it causes problems with search engines. As they don't accept cookies they get 
stuck in a loop or redirects.


If you have protected pages that you don't want crawled, why don't you use a 
robots.txt file to make sure the search engine doesn't attempt to crawl them?

-Scott
 





My question is, is this problem an issue with CAS? or the php CAS library we 
have used? or with how it has been implemented?



Many thanks for your help.



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